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how do you use your power?

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 262

so lately there have been threads about conscience, love, cheating, etc. so it made me wonder, if the majority of socios do not experience having a conscience and thus shame(?), what would be the incentive for doing "good" and behaving in a "positive" way toward others? when you decide to "be good" why do you do it? 

i just read this: http://www.sociopathworld.com/2013/11/a-sociopaths-love-story-part-1.html and it made me think,  it takes work and dedication to be a better human being. what inspires you to be "a better person"? or why doesn't it inspire you? do you use your powers for good or evil? why?

the question is open to everyone... 

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 628
how do you use your power?

To fight crime. No one knows this but there is a phone box near my house were I change into my red pants. Ssshhh.

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 109
how do you use your power?

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on 11/12/2013
Posts: 1286
how do you use your power?

 Every act is self serving... When we are self righteous it's usually to make us feel better about the person we are, or to leverage someones opinion of us...

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 109
how do you use your power?

 I mostly agree with you, but I do have an internal desire to not hurt someone's feelings or embarass them for no reason at all.  This applies to complete strangers.  However, as you note, most of the time, I do good things based on how people will perceive me. 

on 11/12/2013
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how do you use your power?

 This desire to not cause hurt usually stems from an empathic connection to them or a guilt resulting from the pain you've caused thus, causing pain to yourself. For example, you love someone and you want to fuck someone else behind their back. Your hold up isn't in the act itself but in the potential backlash if you got caught doing it, it is the pain we feel from guilt/empathy/potential negative consequences it has for us that causes us to question whether or not we allow ourselves to hurt others.

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 109
how do you use your power?

 That is all true and good points.  However, I would feel guilt if I hurt/embarassed someone that I had never met beforehand and that I know I would never see again.  Obviously, it is a different level of feelings and probably much, much easier to get over the guilt of hurting a complete stranger - but that internal desire to not hurt is still there.

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 262
how do you use your power?

right, but is this choice/desire always, purely guided by the ego?

and if so, would you then say that more secure individuals feel less inclined to do "good"? they are already content with who they are, so there is less incentive to boost their own sense of self and ego... 

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 1286
how do you use your power?

 That still stems from the empathic connection you'd get from them, apparently you're very in tune with the emotions of others and can feel what they feel... you are thus, subjecting yourself to what they go through... which is why you avoid it... because you don't want to feel it yourself.

on 11/12/2013
Posts: 109
how do you use your power?

 Damn you for having all the answers!  Seriously, though, that's the point of empathy - to stop one from hurting others.  I guess we agree. 

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